Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society - Racial Representations, 1875-1945 (Paperback, Revised)

Literary critics and cultural historians have for too long written the question of race out of mainstream accounts of English literature. In this work, Bryan Cheyette draws on a wide range of literary texts and social and political perspectives from the 1870s to the 1940s to show that the emerging cultural identity of modern England involved constructing Jews both as a force that could be transformed by a superior culture, and as a race outside the English nation. Dr Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of work by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T.S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies at the heart of modern English literature and society: not as a fixed stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1995
First published:	1993
Authors:	Bryan Cheyette
Dimensions:	228 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-55877-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-521-55877-8
Barcode:	9780521558778

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